A victory for Herbert Kickl’s party would make Austria the latest EU country to register surging far-right support.
      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        12·
        7 days ago

        I’ve heard it said that Austria’s greatest trick was allowing the world to believe that that guy was German and that Mozart was Austrian.

        Edit: I’ve been informed that I may have misremembered. See reply.

        I was right about the dangerous fellow though.

  • pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    Update: They won, but every single party has said they will not work together with Herbert Kickl. Maybe with the FPÖ without him though (they didn’t specifically rule that out), but I doubt the FPÖ will be willing to drop him after getting their best result in history so far (nearly 29%).

    The only possible coalitions without it would be ÖVP (people’s party) + SPÖ (social democratic party) + NEOS (center (economic right (less regulation) else left)) or ÖVP + SPÖ + Green Party.

    Technically ÖVP + SPÖ would also work by a very slim margin (out of 92 needed mandates to form a coalition (183 mandates in total) they’re getting 92 or 93) but wouldn’t hold much power (failing to get a majority if one single mandate doesn’t agree to something) which is why it’s more likely that they also include NEOS or the green party.

    • ad_on_is@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Don’t forget, it’s all about money and power. FPÖ could just send someone else as a bait to get others to coalition with them. I don’t trust these motherfuckers

  • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    Sounds like the Social Democrats and the People’s Party need to make a coalition. Fuck Nazis.